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Bad Apples – Puzzle Game Review
Bad Apples is a Puzzle/Strategy game from Metaversal Studios, first launched in 18th January 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 51+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bad Apples Stand Out
Bad Apples is a puzzle game that puts a juicy spin on the popular and classic match-3 genre. Match good fruit, but watch out for bad apples!
“Rotten fruit has never tasted so good!” ~AppStruck review
Bad Apples includes a never-ending arcade mode with four difficulty levels as well as 100 challenging puzzles. This game will entertain even the pickiest puzzle player! Bad Apples offers hours of strategic gameplay for everyone from puzzle masters to casual gamers.
Features:
-Match-3 gameplay with a juicy twist!
-Colorful characters, both good and evil
-Unique shake-to-drop iOS mechanics
-Universal app – optimized graphics for every iOS device
-Leaderboards and achievements through OpenFeint and GameCenter
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bad Apples is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th November 2013
Recent improvements include:
-Added iPad Air compatibility fixes
Download & Availability
Bad Apples is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
No crashing for us, awesome on iPhone 4 and iPad.
Used to love this game but it crashes all the time now despite several updates intended to address this issue. Hope it gets fixed someday.
This game rocks! Its not only entertaining, but it helped us achieving peace of mind. Its not like other games that cause you anxiety. This game is positive and it needs to come back! Please bring it back!!! We love it.
Its simple and relaxing game,we love it.
Please update this game for iOS.
Dear developer, Please update your apps so they will be able to work with iOS 12. Thank you. We love all the games and puzzles you made. Please update these 32 bit apps to 64 bit please! They are a crowd pleaser.
Bring this classic back, please.
Not sure why this app doesn't have a lot reviews. It deserves 5stars! We love this game and we got play it everyday before bed or whenever we're in our car. It's fun ! We just love it. Never write a review this long but "Bad apple" deserve it.
It s great! We love this app. We are playing it since 2009 and it never gets boring.
Would keep it on the device for a long time.
This game helps our anxiety in some way. We started playing it in late 2011 when we were going through a break up. Going through another break up with the same person and this game just eases our mind and calms us down. Not sure why but we love it.
This is a great game to sit and relax with. A combo tetris meets bejeweled.
Here's A Little Song: Bad apples keeps us busy, the fruit are super cute! A definite keep, a definite reccomend, oh the fun wil never end. We like the nurse blueberry best, the apples are a pest.
This game is great and fun!! It will be awesome if you add the number of levels, so we know which level we're on. We'll appreciated it if we could post our name with the points we earn.
The arcade shuts down unexpectedly, every time we try to play. The puzzles work great. Cute app, just wish the arcade worked.
We were shocked to see this only had three stars… This is one of our favorite match games, and we are not a fan of most of them… Including bejeweled. It is also not nearly as hard as people describe, they just are not patient enough to observe good matches from bad.
Very very hard even on the novice level but very entertaining at the same time recommended for people with ALOT of free time. Even if u are thinking bout getting this app we would because there is nothing to loose it's FREE.
The scoring system was changed. Hard lvl is now almost impossible with less PTs per match. We hate it now. Even the achievements were replaced.
It's been crashing so much lately we can't even play anymore… Please fix.
This is your typical match & remove, but with cute, funny faced fruits and a few extra twists to make it more fun and interesting. We play it quite a bit. It's a solid keeper in our collection.
We'll die if we go a day without this game!! Super addicting but you'll have the most fun ever !!! :D.
Can't stop playing, never gets old. Highly recommended.
We're all familiar with the 'match three' type of game were you line up three matching items in a screen full of stuff to eliminate them and clear the screen. It's hard to come up with new ways to do this kind of game, but the makers of Bad Apples found a few. First of all, there's a puzzle mode you can play in. Each puzzle level has some fruit and a set number of moves you have to clear the screen in. VERY fun and unique. Then there's the juice idea, where you play a level until you've filled a bottle with juice instead of just going until the game finally beats you (the stanard way match-three-type gsmes work). The graphics are charming and nice to look at. The theme is well realized. The sound effects are just right. Overall fun, clever, and different. We'll definitlly be upgrading to the buy version.
We can't stop playing this great game super challenging we like it.
It is sooo hard! Well, up to level 7.
This game is more fun then feeding your lice infested grandmother and less fun then winning the lottery. It's meant for people between the ages of fetus and dead. Have fun at work Dave Landry. Keep up the good work.
It's free and has quite a few levels. It is defintley fun and challenging espically when we are bored we just play this app and time flys buy! Great game lov it!! :).
If u want something different than your typical match 3 games, this one is cool Love when we get a good combo & the deep "Barry White" sounding voice says "JUICY"! Fricken hysterical.
We don't know what people are talking about the game running slowly for them. We haven't had a single problem yet but we're using a 3GS so maybe it's time to upgrade people haha.
Every time we are using our iPad our girlfriend asks us if she can play that apple game! Lol it's funny cause we compete with each other to beat each others scores. Absolutely love this game and the power up pack makes the game more challenging. We recommend this game to everyone it's highly addicting and we play it all the time!!! Please make it universal for the iPhone and iPad please.
Still One of our Favorite game appsCannot wait for update w/ new stuff.
This game is fun so fun gona jumpp off a bun.
So cute and addictive! We play it all the time. We love that it has achievements that you can unlock and we also think the music is cute and familiar (maybe cause we play it too much)! Seriously consider getting the update because this game is amaaaazing.
It's entertaining! We keep getting stuck at the same level so we're pretty pissed off and we refuse to lose to the bad apple!! Damn this games like crack in iPhone app form.
Hey guys, we're in the middle of nowhere with 3G and no wifi. Because of the 10MB limit, should we upgrade? Or is the upgrade bigger than 10MB? Great game.
Graphics are really cute and appealling. Our 7 year old loves the different facial expressions on the characters. We play it as well, and it's very addicting. There are 3 different levels of difficulty on the arcade and then a number of different puzzles to solve just through the freebie version. We spend a lot of our free time playing this game. We actually bought it after trying it for free because it was so enjoyable. The fruit don't automatically fall unless you shake your handheld…which can be disabled under OPTIONS. Another really cute thing about the game is that you can earn a number of different awards. We say it's worth the $2 upgrade :).
OMG THIS IS THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD!! We love it we will play it for hours! Its deff a must get and its free.
This game is really fun and it's addicting. Great game for killing time.
By far the best free game out there we love it.
What an amazingly fun and polished game.
That game is seriously awesome. We've just upgraded our version! We loved it. We really did.
The graphice are very nice and crisp and the game is a lot of fun.
A puzzle game in the AppStore that's worth our time! We like it a lot more than Bejeweled, and the sound effects are great! We bought the upgrade immediately. We think it's awesome they let you try the app before you buy it.
We like this game alot. The graphics are great and the apples are adorable! This is one of our favorite apps. Its challenging and fun. One problem though, if we have to purchase a power up pack for 1.99, what's the point in making this a free app! There is not enough puzzle levels. We finished it all in about 10 minutes! Add more free levels and we'll definetly change our rating to 5 stars.
We love it. But on the puzzle part, how do you beat Puzzle 7?? But others wise this app is amazing.
Really enjoying this game at 3:23AM. Couldn't sleep and needed something to wind down with. Love the simple yet stylish game and we're sure we'll be playing it in the morning going to work! Love great free games.
Fun and addicting game. Cute, fun graphics. Its a great game.
We love the colors and action! There is more options and choices than bejeweled. Love the puzzle as well but wish there were more levels for free.
When we hit a new level and a new super fruit comes up the game freezes. The music still plays but the game is dimmed down and frozen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.50
- Size: 33.11 MB
- iOS: 4.3 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Metaversal Studios
Last updated: 20th November 2013 | Genre: Puzzle, Strategy | Developer: Metaversal Studios